The Whipper Snapper!
Newsletter of the Leather Leadership Conference XI
Minneapolis April 20-22 2007
Vol. 1 Number 4
Register now at $130 until April 17
Registration will be available at the door for $149
In this issue:
- LLC Podcast
- Hotel rooms
- Laura Antinou book signing at Dreamhaven
- Thanks to sponsors
- On site registration hours
- Cara Walker at the Walker
- Sir Nagrom – Morgan Monceaux
You know you are a Kinky Minnesota when you realize that
you have spent more time working on LLC in the last few
months than you have doing kinky stuff!
1. Check out LLC on the web at http://llc.podshow.com/
You know you are a Kinky Minnesota if Leather
and Levis turns into Leather and long underwear
2. Hotel rooms
Our hotel room block has expired and the hotel is booked solid. You can get on a waiting list at this point –or try optional hotels nearby. Again, if you are on the waiting list for the Hyatt – our room RATE will be honored as long as you ask for the "Leather Leadership Conference Rate". If you seek other options – there are no special discounts.
If you have a reservation for the host hotel and need to cancel it please contact LLC registration at the email address below so we can be sure the room goes to someone on the waiting list. If you are in need of registration or hotel assistance, please email
llcelevenregistrar@gmail.com or aka.ceilo@gmail.com
You know you are a Kinky Minnesota if you’re
at a kinky party and people are swapping recipes.
3 Laura Antoniou at Dream Haven books!
LLC featured speaker Laura Antoniou, author of the Marketplace series of BDSM novels, will be reading from her works and signing books at DreamHaven books
912 West Lake Street, Minneapolis, MN 55408-2857. April 21st at 7:00 PM. She also created the groundbreaking Leatherwomen anthologies. She has been writing erotica for over 20 years, when her day job permits her the time. She lives in Queens with her wife Karen, and happily serves as boy to Kim Attica.
DreamHaven is taking orders for signed or personalized copies of her books. Orders must be placed no later than Thursday, April 19th.
Check it out at http://www.dreamhavenbooks.com/antoniou.php
You know you are a Kinky Minnesota if
you take up fire play just for the warmth.
4. Special thanks to LLCXI's sponsors:
New England Leather Alliance
Minnesota Stocks, Debentures, and Bonds
Knights of Leather
Atons of Minneapolis
Minnesota Storm Patrol
Corn Haulers L&L of Iowa
MinKy
Chuck Renslow/International Mr. Leather
Leather Archives & Museum
National Coalition for Sexual Freedom
San Francisco
Gray's Leather
Lavender Magazine
Chicago Leather Club
Gone with the Wind Party
MPX BBQ
Rubber Doll Factory screening party
MN Electric play group
Mid-America Conference of Clubs
Ms/Mr. World Leather
Kinky Kollege
International Ms. Leather
Ms. Cynthia
Bizarre Bazaar
Southwest Leather Fest
St. Louis Leather & Lace
Jack Rinella/Rinella Editorial Services
Woodhull Freedom Foundation
Madame Giggles
Smitten Kitten
Master's D/signs
Dreamhaven Books
Kinky Cookie Bake
You know you are a Kinky Minnesota if you have
included Mosquito play on your hard limit list.
5. On-site registration
This will need to be cash or check only. We don't have the ability to accept credit cards on-site
Breakfast with Laura Antoniou - Tickets must be pre-purchased for this event. Last date to purchase tickets is April 17th. Cost is $25 with conference registration or $50 as a stand-alone ticket.
Registration/Information Hours: Thursday 5:00 - 7:30 PM, Friday Noon to 8:00 PM, Saturday 7:30 AM to 7:00 PM, Sunday 8:30 AM to 3:00 PM
You know you are a Kinky Minnesotan if you call
them condoms because if you ask for
rubber she gets out the hip waders.
6. Kara Walker at the Walker Art Center:
Exhibition Overview
The first full-scale American museum survey of the work of artist
Kara Walker premieres at the Walker Art Center February 17–May 13,
2007. Organized by Philippe Vergne, Deputy Director and Chief
Curator, and Yasmil Raymond, Assistant Curator, at the Walker, in
close collaboration with the artist, Kara Walker: My Complement, My
Enemy, My Oppressor, My Love features work ranging from her
signature black-paper silhouettes to film animations and more than 100
works on paper. After its presentation at the Walker, the exhibition
will travel to the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York (October
11, 2007–February 3, 2008), and the Hammer Museum, Los Angeles
(February 17–May 11, 2008).
Kara Walker is among the most complex and prolific American artists of her generation. Over the past decade, she has gained national and international recognition for her room-size tableaux depicting historical narratives haunted by sexuality, violence, and subjugation but made using the genteel 18th-century art of cut-paper silhouettes. Set in the American South before the Civil War, Walker's compositions play off stereotypes to portray, often grotesquely, life on the plantation, where masters and mistresses and slave men, women, and children enact a subverted version of the past in an attempt to reconfigure their status and representation.
Over the years the artist has used drawing, painting, colored-light projections, writing, shadow puppetry, and, most recently, film animation to narrate her tales of romance, sadism, oppression, and liberation. Walker's scenarios thwart conventional readings of a cohesive national history and expose the collective, and ongoing, psychological injury caused by the tragic legacy of slavery. . . . http://calendar.walkerart.org/canopy.wac?id=2734
You know you are a Kinky Minnesotan when your
date has so many layers on you can't tell if they are crossdressing…
7. Portraint of a Portrait Artist
Check out the story in Lavender Magazine: Portrait of a Portrait Artist – an interview with Morgan Monceaux. Plan to see the work and meet Sir Nagrom at the Leather Leadership Conference. http://www.lavendermagazine.com/artman/publish/article_4022.php
You know you are a kinky Minnesotan when
patterned wool sox are not part of a humiliation scene.